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The Horrigan Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$11MHealth$11MPhilanthropy$3.0MArts & Culture$500kHuman Services$100k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10.0M → 16%THE MAGGY HAVES SCHOOL: $250k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE: $250k → 11%ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY: $40k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $10.0M → 17%MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE: $250k → 11%ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY: $40k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $1.0M → 17%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY: $40k → 9%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 9%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 9%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 9%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 9%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 5 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$16M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+6%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2021–2024 · $11M
  • LT
    Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation
    6× · 2017–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +38%
  • NC
    NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue -8%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $10M · revenue +6%
  • TM
    THE MAGGY HAVES SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 8 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $10,999,475 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $3,000,000 · OtherLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation+2 more: $350,000 · OtherNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $120,000 · EducationMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $500,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$24,349,475Education$1,120,000Arts & Culture$500,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $3,000,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $500,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropic TrustPA11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Horrigan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Horrigan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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